Charles Kenny is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. Bad news: Mozambique has just discovered between 6 trillion and 8 trillion ...

Liberia is in the news as Chevron has announced plans to begin oil exploration there later this year. That has led to predictable (and quite reasonable) worries about the country succumbing to the ...

What does resource wealth, including oil, gas, and nonfuel minerals, mean for a country? Because minerals are crucial for meeting the soaring global demand for energy and industrial inputs, it has ...

It reads like a script for a Hollywood movie—a poor protagonist happens upon an opportunity that has the potential of bestowing riches, but an evil curse threatens to spoil it all. Unfortunately, it’s ...

International economics and international environmental studies have been recently preoccupied with the resource curse theory. This theory is based on data indicating that countries endowed with ...

Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or ...

Griffith University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. With the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s autocratic regime, the transitional government in Libya is prompting hopes for a new era ...

The “Rural Matters” section of Utah Gov. Spencer Cox’s “One Utah Roadmap” has been criticized for over-emphasizing resource extraction and insensitivity to the environment. It seeks to buttress the ...

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